Jupille-sur-Meuse

It is quite characteristic and quite illuminating that the palaces of the Carolinian princes were not located in the towns.

They were, without exception, in the country, in the outskirts of the dynasty, at Herstal, at Jupille, at Mersin in the valley of the Meuse, at Ingelheim in that of the Rhine, and so on.

The fame of Aix-la-Chapelle should not lead to any illusion that the character of that locality.

The resplendency in which it temporarily gloried under Charlemagne was due only to its fortune in being the favorite residence of the emperor.